Item Squish Confirmed

"Tencent: How will you deal with bigger and bigger numbers in the next expansion？ I think it is time to do something with it.
Ghostcrawler: We have considered this problem and we will reduce players' stats in the next expansion."

I am so excited they finally manned up and decided to push this through. What number range do you guys think they will be reduced to? BC, Nilla, Wotlk? I am personally hoping for BC numbers.

Also, for people who are afraid of this conflicting with soloing content, it wont. The squish scales EVERYTHING down in game, so we will still be able to solo content like we are currently now.

How will this work with old content btw?
Will they Squish that too, or will we have to group up again for those, i don't mind either options.

Some people want to think they'll decrease player power and thus kill soloing.

I say that's a waste of time and Blizzard could never realistically do that due to the backlash. Even if they did, it'd be like the RealID fiasco where the rage is too big and it'd have to be reverted.

I say, just a certain percentage across the board so everything is weaker while the player power remains exactly the same.

Originally Posted by leaks

Well it's good to see the keyboard activists in full effect. Doing the laziest, most asinine thing they could think of off the top of their heads and calling it justice while making no difference.

Originally Posted by C9H20

Blizzard effectively wants to have its cake and eat it too by pretending to have this groundbreaking war in a faction capital while at the same time being completely unwilling to portray logical consequences of such an event.

they WERE thinking of it for Mists but decided against it. They explained that they were going to squish EVERYTHING so older content will still be solo able but will likely take a bit more skill as the gap between 60-70 (for example) will be smaller.

IIRC I read somewhere that they were still in the consideration for item squish for next xpac but it could be old or out of date news.

Some people want to think they'll decrease player power and thus kill soloing.

I say that's a waste of time and Blizzard could never realistically do that due to the backlash. Even if they did, it'd be like the RealID fiasco where the rage is too big and it'd have to be reverted.

I say, just a certain percentage across the board so everything is weaker while the player power remains exactly the same.

Well would be nice if we had to group up again for old content and hard elite quests, those that require 4 pple instead of 1 =/
But time will tell ^^

There's nothing about an item squish that requires old content get more difficult. It simply means making numbers all around smaller. Player power relative to all present content will remain the same, the only thing changing is the numbers.

It's about time. I'm not sure exactly how they'll do it, but it could be as simple as cutting all numeric values by 90%. It'll still take as many whacks to kill things, but the numbers will be easier to manage.